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Alison Herman

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tv critic at variety. aherman at variety dot com

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‘Industry’ Bosses on That Shocking Finale and Whether [SPOILER] Was Inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘All of This Was in Her From the Very First Moment’ 'Industry' creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay break down the Season 4 finale and whether Yasmin is inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell

interviewed mickey down and konrad kay about a heckuva INDUSTRY season!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

02.03.2026 02:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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blogged about the biggest kitchen clusterfuck I’ve ever experienced in my life, plus the miraculous comeback: aherman2006.substack.com/p/cassoulet-...

01.03.2026 21:34 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘Marshals’ Turns Taylor Sheridan Franchise Into a Workmanlike CBS Procedural: TV Review The Kayce Dutton-centered 'Yellowstone' spinoff 'Marshals' turns the Taylor Sheridan franchise into a workmanlike CBS procedural.

the first present-tense YELLOWSTONE spinoff is here and it puts the lavish streaming hit through the broadcast procedural machine: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

01.03.2026 20:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't really watch tv trailers but my understanding is that this show's does not exactly communicate the tone haha

01.03.2026 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

not to diminish conrad's own authorial stamp, but I was shocked how similar the rhythms were!

01.03.2026 16:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HBO’s ‘DTF St. Louis’ Is a Perversely Hilarious Spin on an Erotic Thriller: TV Review Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini star in HBO's 'DTF St. Louis', a perversely hilarious erotic thriller from creator Steven Conrad.

if you are the kind of person for whom "erotic thriller in the style of tim robinson" is not a prompt to run screaming in the other direction, then DTF ST. LOUIS is for you: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

01.03.2026 16:38 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 2

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26.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I enjoyed much of BRIDGERTON s4 but ultimately the story treating one social divide (class) as insurmountable but another (race) as all but vaporized with relative ease is too much cognitive dissonance to bear!!

26.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Industry’ Renewed for Fifth and Final Season at HBO "Industry" has been renewed for Season 5 at HBO, which will be the show's final season.

this feels good and right to me! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

25.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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NBC Sitcom ‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ Is Tracy Morgan’s Best Star Vehicle Since ’30 Rock’: TV Review NBC's 'The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins', a mockumentary sitcom produced by Tina Fey, is Tracy Morgan's best star vehicle since '30 Rock'.

I wish THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS were a little less gentle to its characters, but it's still a damn good showcase for a stellar cast — first and foremost tracy morgan: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

23.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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gagged me tbh variety.com/2026/tv/news...

23.02.2026 05:01 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Max Minghella on Playing the Big Bad of ‘Industry’ Season 4: “I Would Almost Black Out Shooting the Show” Max Minghella breaks down Season 4, Episode 7 of 'Industry' and playing con man Whitney Halberstram on the HBO finance drama

I interviewed WHITNEY HALBERSTRAM!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

23.02.2026 03:47 — 👍 30    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

like all emerald fennell movies, WUTHERING HEIGHTS is dumb. but it is the first emerald fennell movie to *know* it's dumb and deploy said dumbness with intention. I rest my defense

21.02.2026 00:07 — 👍 88    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1

this is such awful news and you'll be in my thoughts. wishing you a fast and full recovery

20.02.2026 23:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Netflix Animated Comedy ‘Strip Law’ Is a Joke-Dense Love Letter to Las Vegas Lunacy: TV Review Netflix animated comedy 'Strip Law' stars Adam Scott and Janelle James as a pair of Las Vegas lawyer who tackle cases with Sin City flair.

vegas legal animated comedy STRIP LAW is a demented show about a demented place. all the fun of a lost weekend with none of the hangover: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

20.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 98    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2

by FAR the funniest responses to this are the ones assuming I am somehow gen z. like I didn't take enough buzzfeed quizzes to earn an honorary degree....

19.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

some people seem to disagree!

19.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

every time I pan something popular I'm always sent screenshots of its rotten tomatoes audience score. I find the underlying assumption fascinating: that my job is to perfectly predict and reflect aggregate opinion, and that if I don't align with it I'm somehow failing

19.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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The ‘Scrubs’ Revival Is Millennial Cringe: TV Review Medical sitcom 'Scrubs' reboots with a Season 10, airing on Hulu and ABC with Zach Braff returning, that typifies millennial cringe.

millennials are cringe now and so is SCRUBS variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

18.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 3

THE MOMENT and NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE are really the two genders of mockumentaries about making music and the allure of fame versus staying true to one's roots

17.02.2026 17:47 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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HBO’s Josh Safdie-Produced Docuseries ‘Neighbors’ Is Nextdoor Brought to Life by Way of ‘Uncut Gems’: TV Review Directors Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford, backed by Josh Safdie, expose the dark heart of American entitlement in HBO docuseries 'Neighbors'.

NEIGHBORS is the latest safdie-produced hbo docuseries to star the kind of singular weirdos who would get cast in a safdie movie, this time with a focus on nextdoor fights come to life: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

13.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Derry Girls’ Follow-Up ‘How to Get to Heaven From Belfast’ Is Another Delightful Northern Irish Romp — This Time With a Dead Body: TV Review Netflix dramedy 'How to Get to Heaven from Belfast' is another delightful Northern Irish romp from 'Derry Girls' creator Lisa McGee.

DERRY GIRLS creator lisa mcgee is back with more chaotic northern irish girlfriends but this time it's set in the present day and there's also MURDER!! not all the added elements come together but it's still a delightful hang variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

13.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’ 'Industry' actor Miriam Petche discusses Sweetpea's spotlight episode of the HBO drama, including a trip to Africa and standing up to Harper.

I interviewed SWEETPEA!!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

07.02.2026 02:30 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0
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‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’ 'Industry' actor Miriam Petche discusses Sweetpea's spotlight episode of the HBO drama, including a trip to Africa and standing up to Harper.

I interviewed SWEETPEA!!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

07.02.2026 02:30 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0
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Savannah Guthrie’s Mom’s Disappearance Has Rocked ‘Today’ — and Strained Morning TV’s Image of a Joyful Family The abduction of 'Today' anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona has strained morning TV's image of a joyful family.

a few words on the TODAY team navigating an impossible, awful situation this week: variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

05.02.2026 22:53 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

the cruelty of punishing employees for a strategy YOU imposed on THEM is just beyond. injury to insult!!

04.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

jeff bezos made a deliberate choice to kneecap the washington post in favor of his other business interests and didn't even have the decency to absorb the costs himself.

04.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 51    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
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I'm 24, I Make $55K & I Just Moved In With My Boyfriend How much one person spends in 7 days in Chicago, IL.

MONEY DIARIES BACK?!?!? www.refinery29.com/en-us/progra...

03.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Kaley Cuoco Thriller ‘Vanished’ Is a Lesser Retread of ‘The Flight Attendant’: TV Review Marseille-set MGM+ thriller 'Vanished' stars Kaley Cuoco and Sam Claflin in a lesser retreated of Cuoco's 'The Flight Attendant'.

from the weekend: kaley cuoco stars in VANISHED, another globe-trotting crime thriller that's a major downgrade from THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT except for all the glamor shots of marseille variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

02.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Hype Ruin a Restaurant? I went to Wilde's. It was weird!

blogged a disappointing dinner and the resulting emotions about neighborhood restaurants that get too big to fulfill their stated purpose!! aherman2006.substack.com/p/can-hype-r...

31.01.2026 23:59 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0